The Hemisphere: Back to Germany

Fourteen hundred men of Canada's 27th Infantry Brigade filed down a
gangplank at Rotterdam one morning last week and paraded through a cold
drizzle to the Stadhuis (city hall). There, Defense Minister Brooke
Claxton formally turned the brigade over to General Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Said Ike: "I know you will be worthy representatives of
your great country in this endeavor, which is to secure the peace."

The troops were the second contingent of the 27th to arrive; the rest of
the 6,500 will reach the brigade base at Hanover, West Germany, by
mid-December. Seizing the chance to tell Europeans about Canada's
growing...